Firewood Season 2024

[Cavman]

Picked a full pickup load of oak and cherry logs from the community brush drop-off yesterday. All about 4' long and 8 to 10" in diameter. I'll section them up and split them this weekend. Ought to see me through a few fires in the pit.

Thats a good idea. Never thought of checking stuff like that

 

[Michigan Slim]

Thats a good idea. Never thought of checking stuff like that

It's right behind my office. I watch it pull in. The brush dump in Fort Wayne has a bunch usually also.

 

[indyjohn]

Picked a full pickup load of oak and cherry logs from the community brush drop-off yesterday. All about 4' long and 8 to 10" in diameter. I'll section them up and split them this weekend. Ought to see me through a few fires in the pit.

4' long you say? It's almost like the guy that cut it up knew it could be rescued from the chipper by a lucky soul such as you and turned into 16" firewood.

 

[Bugzilla]

When I had a tree service top 5 trees a few weeks ago so the garden would get more sun, I was amazed of their poor clean up trimming. Most every thing 3” and under they put in my burn pile. Pile got too big so started another pile. I burnt the burn pile the other day as I am currently flush with firewood but recut the second pile before I threw it in the burn pile. Got a decent amount of wood from it. I’ll cut down to about 1-1/2” diameter for firewood. About a week earlier, I cut down about a 16” dead oak and took about a 12” branch (80+ rings) from another oak. It took me about the same time to clean those as it took the crew of 4 to do a poor job of cleaning up the 5 trees they topped, about 7” diameter was the largest. I start at the top of the cut tree and cut at the 1-1/2” diameter point. Those pieces are easy to gather and take to the burn pile. What is left is a clean area around the tree that is easily cut into firewood.
The tarp in the background is to keep the garden plants from the radiant heat. Learned a few years ago the hard way I needed that! You can see the second brush pile I recut in the background on the right.

 

[klausm]

I like keeping some pretty small stuff to pack into the woodburner at the end of the day to make it thru the night

 

[Leadeye]

When a tree comes down in my woods I generally push all the brush and small stuff into a pile with the tractor. It's one of the things the Classified Forest folks like to see during an inspection as it provides wildlife cover. As I find tires on ground that I've purchased recently, these go on the bottom of these piles. Most all of my firewood is the trunk and larger branches.

 

[cmann250]

I cut and split 3 kubota loads (1/3 cord?) of Cherry today. Now that I have a gas splitter, I like cutting and splitting it the woods and leaving the mess out there. Handle it once to split and once to stack.

 

[Michigan Slim]

I split and stacked about half a truck bed worth this weekend. Wife gave me heck because she knew how sore I've been.

 

[Cavman]

I've added another trailer load to this pile. All wet elm. Been a pain to split

 

[klausm]

it doesn't seem to split, it just tears

 

[Cavman]

it doesn't seem to split, it just tears

Yep. Gotta use hatchet on every piece just about

 

[ghuns]

it doesn't seem to split, it just tears

I've had better luck splitting when the wood is still wet and it's -20°.

 

[yetti462]

I hate seeing him grow up , but the help sure is nice. He was a trooper, stayed with me all day.

 

[INPatriot]

I hate seeing him grow up , but the help sure is nice. He was a trooper, stayed with me all day.

He'll remember this the rest of his life and pass on the same to the next generation!

 

[Cavman]

Anybody ever stack their piles in the hole hasusen way? just thought it was interesting

 

[Magyars]

Anybody ever stack their piles in the hole hasusen way? just thought it was interesting

Pretty cool.
Only issue for me is my pieces are not nearly as uniform as what's shown on the video.

 

[Cavman]

Pretty cool.
Only issue for me is my pieces are not nearly as uniform as what's shown on the video.

Same here. I run a boiler so my cuts and splits are never uniform.

 

[KJQ6945]

After all the storms we’ve had down here in east Texas, and all the trees I have down, I stepped up my wood game.


It’s an LX2620su considerably larger than my old BX

 

[KJQ6945]

Is anybody else using a grapple?

 

[INP8riot]

Is anybody else using a grapple?

Pssshhh, I wish! I keep it old school!